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Autor*innen: Núñez, Alexandra; Gerloff, Malte; Do Dinh, Erik-Lan; Rapp, Andrea; Gehring, Petra; Gurevych, Iryna
Titel: A "Wind of Change" Shaping public opinion of the "Arab Spring" using metaphors
Aus: Alliance of Digital Humanities (Hrsg.): Digital Humanities 2017: Conference abstracts, McGill University & Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, August 8.11, 2017, Montréal: Alliance of Digital Humanities, 2017 , S. 551-553
URL: https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/041/041.pdf
Dokumenttyp: 4. Beiträge in Sammelbänden; Tagungsband/Konferenzbeitrag/Proceedings
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter: Automatisierung; Computerlinguistik; Einflussfaktor; Grammatik; Metapher; Öffentliche Meinung; Presseberichterstattung; Semantik; Textanalyse
Abstract: How does mass media affect the way we think about controversial topics such as the "Arab Spring"? What persuasive role do metaphors play especially in opinion pieces? We analyze how the political events of the years 2010-2011 in the Middle East and North Africa Region ("Arab Spring") are categorized and assessed using metaphorical constructions in newspaper opinion pieces. We show ways in which particularly the use of metaphors reveals how the media tried to achieve acceptance for the events based on our cultural models (Quinn and Holland, 1987), which are grounded on our western knowledge. To this end, we constructed a pipeline that automatically detects (and filters) metaphors appearing within certain grammatical constructions, before clustering them by presumed source and target domains (Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Lakoff and Johnson, 1980). The results give us insights into how the "Arab Spring" is metaphorically structured by semantic clusters in opinion pieces. (DIPF/Autor)
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